# Indictment

Networks named by its archives: CBS. Heard 1958. 1 episodes.

Indictment was fictionalized account of real-life events as gathered and experienced by a former New York City (Manhattan) assistant district attorney Eleazar Lipsky. He served in the 1940s and continued on to a successful private practice law career. He was most known by the public was as a successful novelist. His most famous work is the story that was adapted to become the movie Kiss of Death (1947) with Victor Mature, for which he received an Academy Award nomination. Indictment was a late 1950s program on CBS was produced in New York City. It was written by radio veteran Allan Sloane (best known for The Big Story on radio and television) with Lipsky. The program and was known for employing an integrated cast that represented the ethnic diversity of the characters in the story and the City. The program was directed by Peter Roberts, who would become the first director of Suspense after it returned to New York after 17 years in Hollywood. Roberts re-used at least three Indictment scripts in his year as director of Suspense. Few Indictment episodes have survived, and all of them are airchecks from home recordings made on consumer reel-to-reel equipment. This means that the audio quality of the programs are not very good... and can only offer a small indication of the better quality of this series production had compared to others of its time. * * * These recordings are part of the Joe Hehn Memorial Collection. Mr. Hehn (1931-2020) was a pioneering collector of radio…

## Sets

- Indictment (The Joe Hehn Memorial Collection): the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it. Source: https://archive.org/details/IndictmentJHMC

## Episodes, in broadcast order

1. [And Then There Was One AIRCHECK](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/indictment/55470e245c40), aired 21 December 1958 (25 min): https://archive.org/download/IndictmentJHMC/Indictment%20581221%20And%20Then%20There%20Was%20One%20AIRCHECK.mp3

From the Joe Hehn Memorial Collection, at the Internet Archive.

Nothing here is called public domain on this site's say-so. In the United States, sound recordings first fixed before 15 February 1972 have federal protection under the Music Modernization Act of 2018, for most until 2067 at the latest, so most American radio of the 1930s to the 1950s is not in the public domain there. Each set shows the licence, mark or statement its archive gives, and says whose it is.